The Writing of the Decade: 3. The Novel in English
Abstract: W H E N Canadian Literature began in 1959, Canada was happily ex- periencing a traumatic publishing season. All at ...
The Writing of the Decade: 5. Criticism
Abstract: THE FACT THAT Canadian Literature has flourished during the last ten years suggests that criticism in Canada has also flourished. ...
The Writing of the Decade: I. La Littérature Canadienne-Française
Abstract: PAR UN HEUREUX HASARD, les dix années qui ont suivi la fondation en 1959 de Canadian Literature auront cor- respondu ...
The Writing of the Decade: The Short Story in English
Abstract: AROUND 1955 there arose among Canadian writers a creative quest for new approaches to literary expression. A gradual but firm ...
The Writing of Trespass
Abstract: This article, which grew from a conference paper presented at the 2011 WLA conference, examines the work of Laurie Ricou, particularly his book, A Field Guide to a Guide to Dungeness Spit, in light of genre theory and Ecocriticism. The aim of the article is to demonstrate the important role that genre "trespass" and hybridity plays in the formation of a kind of scholarly writing that is responsible to environmental priorities. The article looks at the importance of activating agency and intervention through the work of scholarship, and how Laurie's writing exemplify this priority.
Théâtre des femmes au Québec, 1975-1985
Abstract: Prendre la parole est le début d’un processus d’affirmation. Prendre la parole signifie ne plus accepter de cacher sa colère, ...
Theatres of Law: Canadian Legal Drama
Abstract: The legal profession extends over the whole community and penetrates into allthe classes, acting upon the country imperceptibly and,finally,fashioning it ...
Theorems Made Flesh: Klein’s Poetic Universe
Abstract: O, he who unrolled our culture from his scroll… and a third, alone, and sick with sex, and rapt, doodles ...
Theory Comes Out of the Closet
Abstract: IN,Critique et vérité — a riposte to Raymond Picard’s Nou- velle critique ou nouvelle imposture?, Roland Barthes wrote: “II n’y ...
Theory in Practice, or, CanLit Is So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You1
Abstract: Teoria, the PhD candidate-narrator of Dionne Brand’s Theory (2018), is a distinctly paranoid reader. Their interdisciplinary thesis works to expose the false consciousness that mires others—their family, lovers, thesis committee, students—in anti-liberatory stasis. Like Teoria, many Canadian literature scholars are skillful practitioners of hermeneutic suspicion, an approach whereby critique provokes meaningful change by revealing subjects’ complicity with the same ideologies that do them harm. Paranoid reading offers the field a reproducible method for uncovering inequitable systems’ contradictions and slippages; this hermeneutics’ facility for parsing disturbing truths from comforting fictions has genuine appeal amid CanLit’s perpetual dumpster fires. But what if paranoid reading reiterates rather than repairs CanLit’s damage? For all their analytical strength, the hermeneutics of suspicion also anchor scholarly analysis to disembodied claims of empirical distance, mastery, and individual refinement, each one a vector for settler-colonial (il)logics. By reading CanLit’s smouldering present alongside Brand’s Theory, this article challenges paranoid reading’s efficacy as a theory of change: in Canadian literary studies, hermeneutic suspicion both buttresses (settler) scholars’ sense of objective, masterful knowledge and demobilizes Black, queer, and feminist ways of knowing.